Stephen Pritchard 

Rued Langgaard: Music of the Spheres

Rued Langgaard's Music of the Spheres is truly strange experience, says Stephen Pritchard
  
  


This strange work was given its UK premiere by these Danish players and singers in a BBC Prom last week. Placing its vast resources around the Albert Hall gave the piece plenty of elbow room, something this recording, made in Copenhagen, strives to create – parking the required "distant orchestra" a good way off and putting stylish soprano Inger Dam-Jensen in bright, focused close-up – but it's an uneven, unrewarding experience as whispering pianissimos give way to sudden, shattering fortissimos. Controlling the volume is a full-time job.

 

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